Word: frostes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George Frost Kennan, author and diplomat, presently U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia . . . LL.D...
...advantage of enormous personal charm. Nor were all intellectuals for Stevenson. Following the current lodge rules for intellectuals, Hofstadter seems to assume that an intellectual is necessarily a "liberal"-thereby neglecting a whole genealogy of conservative intellectuals from Alexander Hamilton through Henry Adams to Henry L. Mencken and Robert Frost...
Cone to Crazy Quilt. With such castoffs, Cézanne did the spadework for cubism. He laid the landscape bare to its essential structure, yet cloaked it in a crazy quilt of color like a Jack Frost with spring fever. Unlike his contemporary impressionists, he wanted to show the unchanging longitude and latitude of the earth rather than the fleeting snapshot of the instant. But he left to the later cubists the task of actually depicting the geometry of "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" of his famous dictum on the elements...
...land was our before we were the land's," said the late Robert Frost at President Kennedy's inauguration. But unfortunately too many Americans still think of themselves as possessors rather than proprietors and think of the land as a warehouse rather than a home. Passage of the Wildnerness Bill would have a salutary effect on the country's outlook and can be accomplished now with scarcely any economic injury to anyone. But the longer passage is delayed, than the less incentive there will be for proper use of the lands, the further commercial operations will advance into the wilderness...
Hope's wedding dress was a wraparound, frost-white brocade silk mokey, held in at the waist by a gold belt, from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...